1 June 1805

Evidence

Introd.

Ch. False Ends. Judges

' 6. Interest connection

''.6. Connection between the Judge's and other sinister interests.

Among the different classes of men of law with /by/ which society is saved and afflicted /kept together/ [and afflicted],, /afflicted served and kept together/, that of the Judge, though the highest is but one. Of the others, as formed by natural causes, an enumeration has above been given: + and, be it as it may /howsoever the matter may stand/ with regard to the relative number of the individuals it has been seen at the same time how impossible it is that society should be rid of any entire class.

Of the sinister interest conferred to the person of the judge the nature and cause has /causes have/ already been explained. But every other class of lawyers has its interest: and in each instance that same cause has rendered the interest a sinister one. The direction thus given to the form of interest was indeed in these instances still more unavoidable than in that of the judge. Had intelligence /wisdom/ as well as opulence exerted on the part of the legislator in sufficient quantity /degree/ Judges and other official hands /such servants of the public/ might from the first have been paid by salary: but in the sort of /this field of/ service here in question such mode of payment would not have been applied /applied itself/ to the services rendered to individuals by individuals: the service being occasional, and [...?], such could not but have been the reward.

+ ch. Vexation